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The_jackalope

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Thu Dec 6, 2018, 11:18 PM Dec 2018

Does anyone remember this suspicion about Flynn?

I wonder whatever happened to it?

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10141851874

Russian treason arrests stemmed from intel official helping US catch criminal hackers

Three current and former Russian intelligence agents and a Russian cybersecurity firm employee arrested on charges of treason had been feeding the U.S. information on criminal hackers, a Russian news station reported Wednesday.

Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchaev, who at the time were employed by Russia's intelligence service, the FSB, were arrested along with former FSB agent George Fomchenkov and Kaspersky Lab employee Ruslan Stoyanov in connection with data they passed along to the CIA, according to Rain TV.

The arrests, which were made public in late January, caused speculation that the four had been informants for the investigation into Russian hacking in the 2016 U.S. elections.

According to the Rain report, they had actually been tipping off the CIA about Russian criminal hackers, including accused credit card thief Roman Seleznev and alleged LinkedIn hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin.

My suspicion at the time was that they were probably shopped to the FSB by Flynn when he found out about them in one of his early security briefings. The timing was right.

This appears to have fallen off the radar. I wonder now if he gave the whole mess to Mueller, and it's in the third redaction. I guess we'll find out.
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Does anyone remember this suspicion about Flynn? (Original Post) The_jackalope Dec 2018 OP
'Treason' a key word. May be how Flynn flies free. Whether these arrests, or other treasonous types empedocles Dec 2018 #1
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